Santa Clara seeks input on proposed 49ers stadium (San Jose Mercury News) Tuesday is the day when anyone with concerns about traffic, noise, air pollution, Super Bowl blimps or any other environmental impact from a new 68,500-seat stadium can urge city officials to investigate. [News Source]

Santa Clara seeks input on proposed 49ers stadium (San Jose Mercury News) Tuesday is the day when anyone with concerns about traffic, noise, air pollution, Super Bowl blimps or any other environmental impact from a new 68,500-seat stadium can urge city officials to investigate. [News Source]

Army trying to rid Anniston Army Depot of toxic TCE. Three decades into a nightmare environmental cleanup at the Anniston Army Depot, officials are trying to defuse a potential toxic time bomb that is leaking into the groundwater feeding Anniston's drinking water. [News Source]

Scientists fear impact of Asian pollutants on U.S. From 500 miles in space, satellites track brown clouds of dust, soot and other toxic pollutants from China and elsewhere in Asia as they stream across the Pacific and take dead aim at the western U.S. [News Source]

Sierra Club opposes plant. Clean power or major polluter? Job creator or health threat? The debate over those questions has raged for almost a year and a half since plans were unveiled for a massive tires-to-energy plant in east Erie, Pennsylvania. [News Source]

City eyes AVX pros and cons. Myrtle Beach officials in coming weeks will be weighing the jobs and other benefits AVX Corp. provides against the potential economic fallout the company's environmental contamination might have on the city's tourism industry and area property values. [News Source]

Embracing a low carbon economy. According to the study on sustainable infrastructure, cities are responsible for a disproportionate share of the world's greenhouse gas emissions --some 80 per cent of the world's total emissions. But it also says they can be cut dramatically without major changes in lifestyle. [News Source]

Morristown’s ‘greenest building’ on course. Visitors to the town's "greenest" building -- expected to open this fall at 14 Maple Ave. -- may get the sense they are in an environment of purity that reconnects them to the best the Earth has to offer indoors. [News Source]

Green light given to eco-driving test. It is no longer enough to be a safe driver in Scotland. You will now also have to be an eco-safe driver. [News Source]

Asthma becomes major threat to SA children. Asthma has become the most common chronic disease among South Africa’s children — and more of them suffer from it than before. [News Source]

Beijingers vexed on keeping car ban. Clear air, clean water and safe food, among all other good things, left Bejing residents with not only an "exceptional" Olympics but a keen concern about the Games' "green legacy" which featured blue skies. [News Source]